Cyclist cleared of manslaughter.

Horrible and arrogant. Should have got the full two years.

Anyone care to say why this is different? Apart from the result?

www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/woman-cleared-of-killing-cyclist-in-britains-first-crowdfunded-prosecution-a3509201.html

There must be some posters with the 100% knowledge of the accused driver as clearly some people are psychic as to the background of others and the context of an accident. Or maybe the women who sat and knitted under the guillotine in 18th century France have reincarnated!

Remorse is the first difference that I noticed.

Showing concern for the victim? Not using an illegal vehicle?

Not shouting obscenities at the victim?

Not making up lies that the victim wasn't paying attention because she was on her mobile phone and was therefore somehow responsible for her own death?

Such an unavoidable tragedy caused by an arrogant idiot, riding an illegal bike, completely unaware of consequences, nevertheless he's not the first cyclist to have killed a pedestrian. Not wishing to tar all cyclist with the same brush, I know from family who work in London it's a constant problem with those that jump red lights the pedestrian can often feel they are taking their lives in their hands just getting around. We were in Copenhagen earlier this year and felt there was a different type of cyclist over there, certainly far more considerate, but then there are fewer people and there wasn't the bursting at the seams effect in Denmark's capital that there is in London. We also didn't encounter any of the thrusting lycra clad would be "Tour de France" types either.

We have thoroughfare for pedestrians with "no cycling" signs in our local town but cyclists still ride through it, rarely kids I might add but adults, I've had two near misses one was a woman and when I said "be careful" she replied "I know what I'm doing" and on another occasion when I remonstrated with a man he responded "keep your hair on love" I just wish someone was around to fine them.

I was in the left hand lane of a road yesterday, indicating I was turning left. Checked mirrors - nothing behind me. Just as I was turning I saw a cyclist in my wing mirror coming up on my inside. He was dressed in black, on a black bike and no helmet. Luckily I was able to pull out a bit but if I'd hit him it would have been my fault. Like something along the lines of what Tim Wonnacott is known to say 'there was only a sheet of Bronco between us'. Just thinking about it makes me shaky.